Re: [Nmh-workers] mh and mairix and numerically named folders

Paul F. writes: > in the meantime, any objections if i add this new section to > mh-folders.man, or something like it? > Naming > nmh folders can be given arbitrary names, with one exception: > folders should not be given all-numeric names. This limitation > results from

Re: [Nmh-workers] mh and mairix and numerically named folders

>i don't think the behavior needs to change, although perhaps it >shouldn't have been so easy to create the folder in the first place. >$ refile +1234 >Create folder "/home/pgf/Mail/1234"? Ralph made a similar point; yeah, I'm fine with rejecting those folder names as invalid in

Re: [Nmh-workers] mh and mairix and numerically named folders

ken wrote: > >so my question, before i report this as a limitation with mairix: is > >there any reason that an MH folder shouldn't have an all-numeric name? > >i did grep the man pages a bit, but didn't find a specification for > >folder names > > So, the answer is ... you should not have

Re: [Nmh-workers] mh and mairix and numerically named folders

Ken Hornstein writes: >>so my question, before i report this as a limitation with mairix: is >>there any reason that an MH folder shouldn't have an all-numeric name? >>i did grep the man pages a bit, but didn't find a specification for >>folder names > >So, the answer is ... you

Re: [Nmh-workers] mh and mairix and numerically named folders

Hi Ken, > While it may 'work' in the short term, I think like Conrad said you'll > run into problems in the long run. So things like refile(1) that create a folder need to reject +42, if they don't already? But allow 42 in +/foo/42/bar? Cheers, Ralph.

Re: [Nmh-workers] mh and mairix and numerically named folders

>so my question, before i report this as a limitation with mairix: is >there any reason that an MH folder shouldn't have an all-numeric name? >i did grep the man pages a bit, but didn't find a specification for >folder names So, the answer is ... you should not have a folder with an all-numeric

Re: [Nmh-workers] mh and mairix and numerically named folders

Paul> so my question, before i report this as a limitation with mairix: Paul> is there any reason that an MH folder shouldn't have an Paul> all-numeric name? It caused all kinds of trouble when I last tried it: you can imagine what happens to things like sortm and 'folder -pack' on the

[Nmh-workers] mh and mairix and numerically named folders

yesterday i had reason to create a folder with an all-numeric name. i hesitated, but decided it would probably be just fine, and it did seem to work. nmh has no problems with it that i can see. but when mairix ran overnight, to update the mairix database, i got this error: Cannot add